Hammer: an Android based application for end-user industrial robot programming

This paper presents a novel tablet based end-user interface for industrial robot programming (called Hammer). This application makes easier to program tasks for industrial robots like polishing, milling or grinding. It is based on the Scratch programming language, but specifically design and created for Android OS. It is a visual programming concept that allows non-skilled programmer operators to create programs. The application also allows to monitor the tasks while it is being executed by overlapping real time information through augmented reality. The application includes a teach pendant screen that can be customized according to the operator needs at every moment.

HDTourist: exploring urban data on Android

The Web of Data currently comprises ? 62 billion triples from more than 2,000 different datasets covering many fields of knowledge3. This volume of structured Linked Data can be seen as a particular case of Big Data, referred to as Big Semantic Data [4]. Obviously, powerful computational configurations are tradi- tionally required to deal with the scalability problems arising to Big Semantic Data. It is not surprising that this ?data revolution? has competed in parallel with the growth of mobile computing. Smartphones and tablets are massively used at the expense of traditional computers but, to date, mobile devices have more limited computation resources. Therefore, one question that we may ask ourselves would be: can (potentially large) semantic datasets be consumed natively on mobile devices? Currently, only a few mobile apps (e.g., [1, 9, 2, 8]) make use of semantic data that they store in the mobile devices, while many others access existing SPARQL endpoints or Linked Data directly. Two main reasons can be considered for this fact. On the one hand, in spite of some initial approaches [6, 3], there are no well-established triplestores for mobile devices. This is an important limitation because any po- tential app must assume both RDF storage and SPARQL resolution. On the other hand, the particular features of these devices (little storage space, less computational power or more limited bandwidths) limit the adoption of seman- tic data for different uses and purposes. This paper introduces our HDTourist mobile application prototype. It con- sumes urban data from DBpedia4 to help tourists visiting a foreign city. Although it is a simple app, its functionality allows illustrating how semantic data can be stored and queried with limited resources. Our prototype is implemented for An- droid, but its foundations, explained in Section 2, can be deployed in any other platform. The app is described in Section 3, and Section 4 concludes about our current achievements and devises the future work.

Testing of Android testing tools: development of a benchmark for the evaluation

With the ever growing trend of smart phones and tablets, Android is becoming more and more popular everyday. With more than one billion active users i to date, Android is the leading technology in smart phone arena. In addition to that, Android also runs on Android TV, Android smart watches and cars. Therefore, in recent years, Android applications have become one of the major development sectors in software industry. As of mid 2013, the number of published applications on Google Play had exceeded one million and the cumulative number of downloads was more than 50 billionii. A 2013 survey also revealed that 71% of the mobile application developers work on developing Android applicationsiii. Considering this size of Android applications, it is quite evident that people rely on these applications on a daily basis for the completion of simple tasks like keeping track of weather to rather complex tasks like managing one’s bank accounts. Hence, like every other kind of code, Android code also needs to be verified in order to work properly and achieve a certain confidence level. Because of the gigantic size of the number of applications, it becomes really hard to manually test Android applications specially when it has to be verified for various versions of the OS and also, various device configurations such as different screen sizes and different hardware availability. Hence, recently there has been a lot of work on developing different testing methods for Android applications in Computer Science fraternity. The model of Android attracts researchers because of its open source nature. It makes the whole research model more streamlined when the code for both, application and the platform are readily available to analyze. And hence, there has been a great deal of research in testing and static analysis of Android applications. A great deal of this research has been focused on the input test generation for Android applications. Hence, there are a several testing tools available now, which focus on automatic generation of test cases for Android applications. These tools differ with one another on the basis of their strategies and heuristics used for this generation of test cases. But there is still very little work done on the comparison of these testing tools and the strategies they use. Recently, some research work has been carried outiv in this regard that compared the performance of various available tools with respect to their respective code coverage, fault detection, ability to work on multiple platforms and their ease of use. It was done, by running these tools on a total of 60 real world Android applications. The results of this research showed that although effective, these strategies being used by the tools, also face limitations and hence, have room for improvement. The purpose of this thesis is to extend this research into a more specific and attribute-­‐ oriented way. Attributes refer to the tasks that can be completed using the Android platform. It can be anything ranging from a basic system call for receiving an SMS to more complex tasks like sending the user to another application from the current one. The idea is to develop a benchmark for Android testing tools, which is based on the performance related to these attributes. This will allow the comparison of these tools with respect to these attributes. For example, if there is an application that plays some audio file, will the testing tool be able to generate a test input that will warrant the execution of this audio file? Using multiple applications using different attributes, it can be visualized that which testing tool is more useful for which kinds of attributes. In this thesis, it was decided that 9 attributes covering the basic nature of tasks, will be targeted for the assessment of three testing tools. Later this can be done for much more attributes to compare even more testing tools. The aim of this work is to show that this approach is effective and can be used on a much larger scale. One of the flagship features of this work, which also differentiates it with the previous work, is that the applications used, are all specially made for this research. The reason for doing that is to analyze just that specific attribute in isolation, which the application is focused on, and not allow the tool to get bottlenecked by something trivial, which is not the main attribute under testing. This means 9 applications, each focused on one specific attribute. The main contributions of this thesis are: A summary of the three existing testing tools and their respective techniques for automatic test input generation of Android Applications. • A detailed study of the usage of these testing tools using the 9 applications specially designed and developed for this study. • The analysis of the obtained results of the study carried out. And a comparison of the performance of the selected tools.

Diseño y construcción de un helicóptero coaxial controlado sobre Android

El presente proyecto sienta las bases para el desarrollo de un helicóptero coaxial autónomo. Como principales novedades, se quiere destacar el manejo y control de este. El manejo del helicóptero se consigue desplazando el centro de gravedad. Por otro lado, el control se realiza mediante los sensores de un Smartphone a bordo de la aeronave. Este teléfono además, proporcionará una amplia gama de recursos para el desarrollo de futuras aplicaciones, como pueden ser la cámara o GPS. También se desarrolla la aplicación para enviar órdenes desde el exterior para maniobrar el helicóptero. Este trabajo se lleva a cabo conjuntamente con mi compañero Eduardo Ortega Biber (1), quién se enfoca en las tareas de diseño y simulación. Mientras que el actual proyecto, se centra en el desarrollo de las dos aplicaciones Android de los teléfonos.

Desarrollo de aplicaciones android usando la tecnología wifi-direct

Este proyecto de fin de grado pretende demostrar la importancia y la utilidad de la creación de redes de dispositivos móviles conectados entre sí. Para ello se explicarán varios tipos de redes inalámbricas que permiten estas conexiones directas entre dispositivos sin la necesidad de un servidor. En estas redes inalámbricas se destacan las redes P2P y las redes Ad-hoc, las cuales se explicarán posteriormente. El despliegue de estas redes se puede encontrar en un amplio rango de campos como puede ser la agricultura, la medicina e incluso en el ámbito militar. Es objetivo de este proyecto, además, el estudio de la tecnología Wi-Fi Direct creada por la Wi-Fi Alliance. Como se explicará a lo largo del proyecto, Wi-Fi Direct está basado en las redes P2P. Esta tecnología permite a los dispositivos cercanos crear redes P2P a través de la red Wi-Fi sin la necesidad de un punto de acceso a Internet. Por otro lado, una gran cantidad de los dispositivos móviles que existen actualmente poseen el sistema operativo Android. Android ha incorporado en sus dispositivos más recientes la tecnología Wi-Fi Direct. Debido a ello han ido surgiendo aplicaciones que usando esta tecnología consiguen desde enviar ficheros hasta indicar la localización de un usuario. Esta tecnología combinada con este tipo de dispositivos puede ser muy útil para utilizar en casos de emergencia donde las infraestructuras de comunicaciones no estén disponibles ya que al no necesitar un punto de acceso a internet es posible la comunicación entre un usuario en peligro y otro que se encuentre dentro de un radio cercano. Por estos motivos otro de los principales objetivos de este proyecto es la implementación de una aplicación para dispositivos Android que use la tecnología Wi-Fi Direct para realizar varias funcionalidades diferentes, como es el intercambio de ficheros entre dispositivos y la creación de un chat para la comunicación simultanea entre dos dispositivos. Con esto se pretende conocer mejor el funcionamiento de la tecnología Wi-Fi Direct y demostrar su utilidad en los dispositivos móviles como son los dispositivos Android. ABSTRACT. This final degree Project tries to demonstrate the importance and utility of networking mobile devices. For this purpose several types of wireless networks will be explained. These networks allow direct connections between devices. The most prominent Wireless networks are P2P and Ad-hoc which will be explained later. The use of these networks can be found in a wide range of fields such as agriculture medicine, and even in the military sector. Besides, other aim of this project is the study of Wi-Fi Direct Technology which is created by Wi-Fi Alliance. As it explained along the project, Wi-Fi Direct is based on P2P networks. This technology lets nearby devices create P2P networks through Wi-Fi network without an Internet access point. On the other hand, a large number of mobile devices have the Android OS. Android has integrated Wi-Fi Direct technology in its latest devices. Because of this applications have emerged that using this technology they get from sending files to send the user’s location. This technology combined with these devices can be very useful to use in emergencies where communications infrastructures are not available. Since not need an Internet access point, communication between a user in danger and another within close radius is possible. For these reasons another of the main aims of this project is the implementation of an application for Android devices which use Wi-Fi Direct technology to perform several different functionalities, such as file exchange or chat for simultaneous communication between devices. This is intended to better understand the operation of Wi-Fi Direct technology and prove its utility on mobile devices such as Android devices.

Juego de gestión económico-deportiva de fórmula 1 para Android

Formula Racing Team Manager (FRTM) se trata de un juego de un solo jugador, para Android, donde el jugador tendrá como objetivo principal ascender desde la quinta división inicial hasta la primera y lograr allí ganar la clasificación por equipos ante 19 equipos manejados por el sistema. Por el camino tendrá que gestionar una gran cantidad de tareas distintas en el juego, desde la gestión del equipo en sí a la gestión estratégica de las carreras. Para conseguir el objetivo será básico lograr una buena gestión económica, la fuente principal de ganancias son los patrocinadores, pudiendo contar con un total de cuatro simultáneamente. El dinero conseguido se utilizará en mejorar el equipo (empleados, coche y pilotos) lo máximo posible para conseguir mejores resultados en carrera. Hay una gran cantidad de circuitos disponibles, todos reales, combinando circuitos históricos del calendario de Fórmula 1 con actuales y con circuitos otros populares en otras categorías (a destacar la inclusión de carreras de resistencia como las 500 millas de Indianápolis o las 24 horas de Le Mans). Será importante entender bien los parámetros de cada circuito para lograr un buen resultado en todos ellos. La temporada se divide en 20 grandes premios, formado cada uno por tres sesiones (entrenamientos, clasificación y carrera). En los entrenamientos el jugador podrá, durante dos horas, dar todas las vueltas que cree oportuno hasta que su tiempo se agote, para encontrar así la mejor configuración posible para el coche, y obtener los datos de consumos y desgastes que encuentre necesarios para emplearlos en carrera. En la sesión de clasificación (separada en tres rondas), se decidirán las posiciones de salida en carrera Antes de la carrera el jugador deberá decidir qué estrategia utilizar en ella, escogiendo la configuración del coche, los compuestos de neumáticos y las cargas de combustible a utilizar en cada parada. Durante la carrera también podrá cambiar ciertos parámetros en caso de que la situación de carrera no se adapte a sus expectativas, teniendo así un control total de lo sucedido en carrera, como si de un director deportivo de un equipo real de Fórmula 1 se tratase. Durante la carrera, se irán simulando las vueltas cuando el jugador así lo desee y lo indique mediante un reproductor disponible. Posteriormente, al terminar la carrera volverá a predominar la gestión económica del equipo por parte del jugador, teniendo que controlar los desgastes de cada una de las diez piezas distintas del coche para evitar roturas, y volviendo a poder entrenar a pilotos y empleados. El juego está disponible tanto en español como en inglés. ABSTRACT. Formula Racing Team Manager (FRTM) is a single player game, for Android, where the player has the main objective of promoting from the initial fifth division to the first one, and winning there the championship against 19 teams managed by the system. On the way, the player will have to manage a different number of tasks in the game, from the team management to the race strategic management. To complete that objective a basic key is to achieve a good economic management, the main source of incomes are the sponsors; being able to have a total of four at the same time. The money received will have to be spent on improving the team (staff, car and drivers) the best as possible to try to achieve even better race results. There are a lot of available circuits throughout the game, all of them real, combining some historical from Formula 1 calendar with actual ones, and also with some popular circuits from other categories (to highlight the inclusion of endurance races like the 500miles from Indianapolis and the 24 hours of Le Mans). It will be basic to fully understand the parameters from each circuit to achieve a good result in all of them. The season is divided in 20 Grand Prix, every one of them composed by three sessions (free practice, qualifying and race). In the Free Practice session the player will get the chance to driver all the laps he can in two hours, to try to get the best possible setup for the car and to obtain data from tyres wear and fuel consumption. On the qualifying session (composed by three rounds), the starting grid for the race will be decided. Before the race, the player will have to choose the strategy to use, deciding the car setup, the tyres compound and the fuel inputs for every pit stop to do. Also, throughout the race, the player will get the chance to change some parameters of that strategy in case of the race not going as expected. On the race, every lap will be simulated when the player decides. And, after the race is finished, the player will have to work again on the economy and team management, controlling the wear of every car part to avoid malfunctions, and being able to train drivers and staff. The game is available in both spanish and english.